25 Prospect Street: A Documentary Film at the Prospector Theater

The theater, on its own screen.

25 Prospect Street is a behind-the-screens look at the struggles and the sparkle of the Prospector itself. It follows Val, the pink-haired founder who built a first-run movie theater to employ people with disabilities, and her complicated hope for a real relationship with her sister Hope. The start-up years are hard enough to make Val wonder what else might be bound to fail. Along the way the Prospects laugh, cry and earn their first paychecks as a small-town theater grows into something much bigger.

One screening. Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm. The booking system has not posted a running time for this one yet. Times can change, so check the showtimes page before you go.

Good to know. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for kids 11 and under.

Every ticket does some good. The Prospector is a nonprofit theater built to employ adults with disabilities, who the theater calls Prospects. They greet you and seat you before every show. Closed caption devices and descriptive audio headsets are available at every first-run show.

Make a night of it. The Heads Up Café inside the theater pours coffee, beer and wine, and the ceiling is covered in pennies hand-placed heads up by the Prospects. Downtown Ridgefield's Main Street restaurants are a short walk away.